@Michael PInter, what type of difficulties did you encounter?  

You will hardly ever encounter any serious tenant payment issues, evictions, damages, etc.Let me know if you'd like to see a deal analyzer which breaks down the numbers and I'll send it to you.

And also based on my experience, podcasts done by Josh and Brandon helps a lot on seeing obstacles, mistakes encountered by other investors then solution how they get around with it.

There will be plenty of "on the job" learning experiences that you won't completely understand until you've encountered them even after reading about it every book and article.

A lot of users here being people who have never, and never will pull the trigger on anything, so they aren't actually ever taken by or encountering any scams and therefore don't have much to add on the topic.2.)

This is what I am encountering, in the current Mortgage Industry.

To some degree I'm encountering a similar situation: having a real estate license and finding a broker that will permit me to wholesale real estate.

You will also encounter some things that will make your head spin.

Dear BP Family,  Here comes another encounter of LL/Tenant question for the experienced Landlords out there. 

I came across BiggerPockets as one of the first resources I encountered when I became interested in real estate investing, starting off with the BP podcast (I've marathoned ~60 episodes in two weeks) and the site itself.I'm excited (and to be honest, a fair bit intimidated) to get started in real estate investing, and I thought I'd reach out to the community to get more involved and accelerate my learning process.